While Americans complain about the price of supermarket eggs, their suppliers have tried to hunt for this product in Europe, but without much success, according to Euractiv.

Begging for Eggs

Americans are still rolling up their sleeves over the soaring prices of eggs, and the United States has turned to European producers for help, but Europeans have little to offer.

"The U.S. has approached almost every country in Europe," said Danish industry representative Jørgen Nyberg Larsen.

Larsen mentioned that suppliers and industry groups in Germany, Spain, France, the Netherlands, Italy, and other Nordic countries received similar requests.

These appeals come amid growing trade tensions, prompted by Trump, between the U.S. and its European partners.

At the end of February, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) office in The Hague contacted European countries regarding potential egg supplies, Larsen said.

By early March, the USDA followed up with a request to assess how much each country could provide. "We haven’t heard anything since," Larsen noted.

Economic dissatisfaction grows in America

American consumers have faced a sharp increase in the cost of everyday goods, especially eggs, fueling economic dissatisfaction that played a key role in last year’s U.S. election outcome.

Additionally, an outbreak of avian flu in North America has pushed prices even higher. Egg prices were a frequent topic during the election campaign and have remained a politically charged issue in the U.S. since Donald Trump was sworn in as president in January.

Last week, Trump claimed that egg prices had dropped, despite Associated Press reports stating that U.S. egg prices are actually at their highest levels since the start of the millennium.

While Finland has refused to export eggs, other countries are willing to help. Turkey has agreed to supply the U.S. with 15,000 tons of eggs to help bring prices down. Other countries remain focused primarily on securing supplies for EU consumers.

"We don’t have much to offer," Larsen said

Another significant obstacle for potential exporters is that the U.S. washes its eggs—an uncommon practice in most EU countries and even illegal in certain parts of the bloc.

As a result, any egg exports from the EU would require additional processing before reaching U.S. consumers.

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